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Mississippi's budget picture, like that of most states, is not pretty. The legislature had to make a lot of difficult cuts for the upcoming fiscal year. Now the state's governor and legislature are playing a $120 million game of chicken over Medicaid. And no matter who blinks first, thousands of Mississippi residents could lose critical medical care...
Gone is the era when a meal in a department store meant a scoop of chicken salad on a plastic tray in a room reminiscent of your grandmother's conservatory. These days, shoppers at Selfridges in London are feasting on roast duck, salmon ravioli and pumpkin chili cakes in the store's Premier restaurant, which has a nice view over bustling Oxford Street. At Harrods, the clientele in the Georgian Restaurant is tucking into terrine of foie gras with cèpes, fillet of red mullet and wild game pudding whipped up by a chef who used to work...
...competitive-intelligence department? A 1995 study by professors at the University of North Texas found that companies that place a high emphasis on CI earn an average of $1.24 a share annually, while their competitors that do not stress CI lose 7[cents] a share. There may be a chicken-and-egg dynamic at work: successful firms have a lot more cash to invest in CI. But it seems clear that watching your competitors closely can help boost your bottom line. Cliff Kalb, senior director of strategic business analysis at MERCK, says his division recently helped the pharmaceutical giant outmaneuver...
...pork in paper-thin pastry-like wrappings are steamed and served in the trademark bamboo baskets, which are loaded onto carts and wheeled through the restaurant?mobile menu and tableside delivery in one. Beyond the signature dumplings, other offerings include garlic pork ribs, turnip cake and the ubiquitous chicken feet. Dim sum is usually taken with tea?jasmine, chrysanthemum and oolong are favorites?but rice wine and beer are acceptable alternatives...
WATCH IT When lunching with business associates in China, don't turn the chicken head. The local superstition says that if the bird looks at anyone but the host, the subject of its stare will be pink-slipped. This useful site is full of advice on etiquette in foreign lands?and confessions of travelers who messed...